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Most of us have been caught in the loop of receiving an email or message asking for something but not having an easy way to move that task from your messaging platform to your to-do list. For a while now, Slack has supported the ability to do that but it was via "slash commands". But the company has added new integration to their messaging platform that allows you to connect messages to tasks in other workflow management tools.

As a self-employed freelancer, keeping track of all the deadlines and other tasks I have can be challenging. On a typical day, I'm responsible for delivering content to three publishers, as well as corporate clients and other jobs. Throw in regular interstate travel and few other bits and pieces and planning a week becomes a challenging task. So, I've been experimenting with ways to be better organised and am trying a new approach. Here's what I've come up with.

Microsoft has pushed out an update to their task management software, To-Do. The latest update adds some handy features and ups the ante after Google finally started getting their task management house in order earlier this week.

Your to-do management system says a lot, maybe everything, about you. We've organised the major systems according to their Dungeons and Dragons alignments, making value judgments with which no sane person could ever disagree.

It's been a while since we've heard from some of our favourite to-do apps, Wunderlist and Any.Do, which means it's a perfect time for a fresh look at both apps. Both are still some of the best, cross-platform, free to-do managers available, but let's see how far they have come.

To-do list apps are the cornerstone of a productivity system meant for the digital worker. But which app you should use is subjective. The crowd-sourced to-do list app comparison chart can steer you to the right app for you.